Re: Pain Management Agreement - DEA required?

cllmd <cllmd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message:
eM2Xi.36$sm1.26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
As much as we hate it, our doctors are under a microscope now.
Long-term opiate therapy can be mis-used. We all know some person in
our lives who abuses their meds....i know three. (They use different
pharmacies and pay cash. They use different doctors. Two of them
sell and buy some of their meds. No, they are not being under
treated for their pain. They do this even when their pain is low or
non-existent.) If they get caught, don't you think the doctor(s) who
prescribed their meds will be, at the very least, investigated? I
have taken an oath with my doctor that i will not put him in that
position. That's how the contract helps him.

This is not directed at you personally Lavon,

A person should not be required to sign away any rights just to get
adequate pain relief. Just because the DEA has tried to make it so by
harassing and intimidating doctors, doesn't make it right.

Somebody has to stand up and say this is wrong. Chronic pain patients
should not be trying to justify it with tortured logic. Are we all
sheep? It's a given that people who want to abuse drugs are going to get
them, no matter what we do. As we move closer and closer to a police
state, are we any safer? Is there any less drug abuse?

No, we're not any safer and there isn't any less drug abuse, but
meanwhile many millions are being denied adequate pain relief because of
the DEA. And the DEA is doing everything it can to increase that number.
They don't give a crap about all the extra suffering they cause. They
are only looking at the statistics that say that opiate use is way up.
It's a gold mine for them and the rest of the prison-law
enforcement-drug treatment complex that is draining billions from the
economy.

And all for what? To try to stop people from abusing one substance or
another? To hold the line? We're not doing either and we never will,
until we attack the root causes of substance abuse. That'd be a hell of
a lot cheaper and more effective than what we're doing now.

--
Juba
www.masterjuba.com

Check out the PAYNE HERTZ blog
http://paynehertz.blogspot.com


.

Relevant Pages